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www.film.u-net.com - : In all honesty, the film cannot be considered to be a murder thriller or even a competent detective story. Instead it's better to approach it as a mood piece, an intangible suggestion of a time and a place. This is where Altman's direction takes you, his layered and convoluted scenes reminiscent of Nashville. Unfortunately, in this instance his work is lazy and the characters stereotypical; the subtle complexity that Altman's capable of just isn't in evidence. more...
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2.5/
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www.filmcritic.com - : Robert Altman took a Raymond Chandler/Philip Marlowe novel -- God knows why -- and cast Elliot Gould as a private eye investigating a friend's death in the colorful 1970s, a far cry from the noirs of Bogie's Marlowe. It ends up with mixed results -- Marlowe is drawn as a goofy daydreamer (Altman calls him Rip Van Marlowe) and his story only gets interesting when Sterling Hayden, channeling Hemingway, goes bananas. more...
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3/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Robert Altman's ''The Long Goodbye'' attempts to do a very interesting thing. It tries to be all genre and no story, and it almost works. It makes no serious effort to reproduce the Raymond Chandler detective novel it's based on; instead, it just takes all the characters out of that novel and lets them stew together in something that feels like a private-eye movie. more...
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3/4
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